32.1898, FYI: Game with a Purpose on the Distributional Hypothesis

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Subject: 32.1898, FYI: Game with a Purpose on the Distributional Hypothesis

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:41:31
From: Timothee Mickus [tmickus at atilf.fr]
Subject: Game with a Purpose on the Distributional Hypothesis

 
Hello,

[Apologies for cross-posting]

We are happy to present to you BlankCrack, available at the URL:
https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/ .
Please try our game out! We hope that you will enjoy playing and will spread
the word.

This online game was created to study the validity of the distributional
hypothesis. We are looking for words that share similar contexts and yet mean
different things, as well as whether large language models like BERT and human
annotators are comparable on such data.

Players are invited to either propose or solve riddles. Each riddle is
constructed from two words: a player trying to solve one will be presented
with sentences with some words blanked out, and will have to guess which of
the two words correspond to these blanks.

Our game is available in five different languages:
 - English: https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/game/?lang=en
 - French: https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/game/?lang=fr
 - Italian: https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/game/?lang=it
 - Russian: https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/game/?lang=ru
 - Spanish: https://blankcrack.atilf.fr/game/?lang=es

We've included a number of features to make the game as enjoyable as possible:
levels of difficulty, matches against friends... You can also log in through
social media (Facebook, Twitter & Reddit).

Please have a look at the game, and if you like, please share the URL!
If you have any feedback, feel free to reach us at the email address
dblankcrack at atilf.fr .

Thanks again,

Timothee MICKUS
PhD Applicant at Atilf
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Spanish (spa)





 



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